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Dr. Oppenheim has been an active lecturer, educator, and researcher. He was a participant in helping the New York State Department of Health draft the first "surgical and Invasive Procedure Protocol for every hospital, Treatment Center and ASC in the State. Until these rules were instituted by the NYS DOH in 2006, there was no mandatory protocol in the state to prevent wrong sided and wrong patient surgery. The institution of the "checklist" has been copied by many different health organizations around the world and prevented innumerable medical errors.

Dr. Oppenheim also played a key role in reformulating the New York State criteria for the determination of brain death. Without specific, reproducible and reliable methods for determining brain death, organ harvest and donation would not be possible. Thousands of lives currently depend on the availability of donated organs. Hence, these Guidelines for Determining Brain Death were critical for saving lives.